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Capability gaps and the absence of assessment – Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – Part Four
By David Beaumont This article, and the series which follows, are an updated version of a presentation given at the Australian National University titled ‘Logistics preparedness and mobilising the national support base: the effectiveness of ADF strategic logistics prior to Operation Warden 1999‘.… Continue reading
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Disorganising strategic logistics – Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – Part Three
By David Beaumont This article, and the series which follows, are an updated version of a presentation given at the Australian National University titled ‘Logistics preparedness and mobilising the national support base: the effectiveness of ADF strategic logistics prior to Operation Warden 1999‘.… Continue reading
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Guidance and its implementation- Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – Part Two
This article, and the series which follows, are an updated version of a presentation given at the Australian National University titled ‘Logistics preparedness and mobilising the national support base: the effectiveness of ADF strategic logistics prior to Operation Warden 1999‘ The period from… Continue reading
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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong
By David Beaumont This article, and the series which follows, are an updated version of a presentation given at the Australian National University titled ‘Logistics preparedness and mobilising the national support base: the effectiveness of ADF strategic logistics prior to… Continue reading
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Building a better prepared Australian Defence Force after the Defence Strategic Review – supply-chains and logistics and the way in which both improve military resilience
This is the third and final part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. The theme of the conference was ‘supply-chain resilience’. National Defence: Defence Strategic Review, the Australian Government response… Continue reading
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Making the military prepared and resilient – logistics, supply-chains and problems within
By David Beaumont. This is the second part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. Part one can… Continue reading
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Learning to live in a logistician’s world – strategic logistics and the future of military resilience
This is the first part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. By David Beaumont. There is… Continue reading
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Logistics Contractors and strategic logistics advantage in US military operations
By Sally Williamson The US has enjoyed a strategic logistics advantage in most locations where it has sought to project and sustain military power because it has been able to coalesce host nation, commercial and transnational organisations to provide services,… Continue reading
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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership
Originally posted on The Paper War: Logistics… and everything but the fighting.: By David Beaumont. In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. These insights… Continue reading
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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations
A submission to the 2022 Defence Strategic Review. By David Beaumont ‘The role of industrial preparedness in military strategy is anomalous. Prospectively, the role is almost always ignored by military planners but retrospectively; it is agreed that industrial preparedness was… Continue reading
The Paper War: Logistics... and everything but the fighting. 